City grandee and his wife boost campaign for Covid monument with generous donation 

The Remember Me campaign for a Covid memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral has received another stunning boost thanks to a £100,000 donation from City grandee and philanthropist Lord Spencer and his wife. Making the generous pledge, the trading tycoon said he and his wife Sarah felt a ‘national memorial to those we have lost is … Read more

City grandee and his wife boost campaign for Covid monument with generous donation 

The Remember Me campaign for a Covid memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral has received another stunning boost thanks to a £100,000 donation from City grandee and philanthropist Lord Spencer and his wife. Making the generous pledge, the trading tycoon said he and his wife Sarah felt a ‘national memorial to those we have lost is … Read more

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: D-Day is cancelled… everybody back on the landing craft! 

They won’t be fighting them on the beaches next month to mark the anniversary of D-Day. A planned re-enactment in Devon has been cancelled — on the orders of elf’n’safety. It was scheduled to take place on Saunton Sands and the dunes at Braunton Burrows, where 10,000 troops trained for Operation Overlord in 1944. But … Read more

Queensland family find huge snake inside bathroom sleeping in their toilet paper stash

Ssssorry, it’s occupied: Horrific moment a family discovers a huge snake curled up inside their toilet paper stash – so would you have noticed it?  Queensland family find 3metre long carpet python sleeping in toilet paper stash  Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers was called to the home in Ilkley on Thursday    Python chilling in a basket … Read more

SNP wins by-election in Airdrie and Shotts

SNP wins by-election in Airdrie and Shotts called after sitting MP opted to swap Westminster for the same seat in Holyrood Anum Qaisar-Javed was elected with 10,129 votes, ahead of Labour’s candidate Kenneth Stevenson came in second with 8,372 votes. Tory candidate got 2,812 SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sent her congratulations  By Chris Jewers … Read more

SNP wins by-election in Airdrie and Shotts

SNP wins by-election in Airdrie and Shotts called after sitting MP opted to swap Westminster for the same seat in Holyrood Anum Qaisar-Javed was elected with 10,129 votes, ahead of Labour’s candidate Kenneth Stevenson came in second with 8,372 votes. Tory candidate got 2,812 SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sent her congratulations  By Chris Jewers … Read more

Girl who died from sepsis would have survived if she had antibiotics, inquest hears

A schoolgirl who died during a school trip to New York would have survived if she had received antibiotics in the days before her death, an inquest has heard. Ana Uglow, 17, from Redland, Bristol, collapsed in her hotel room and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai West hospital, New York, on December 19, 2019. Ana, … Read more